From July 2003 until late 2004, the Defendant, Larry Bright, went on a 15-month killing spree which resulted in the deaths of 8 women whose bodies were found in Peoria and Tazewell Counties.

The bodies of his victims were either dumped along rural roads or burned in a fire pit in his backyard at 3418 W. Starr Court, Peoria, Illinois and the remains spread in rural areas. Bright admitted to strangling seven of his victims and admitted the other death was drug induced.

Born on 8 July 1966, Bright had a content upbringing. At school, he played football and was popular with the girls. But as a teenager, he started smoking marijuana.

At 19, he was arrested for vehicle theft and burglary and served two years in prison. After his release he began to drink and take cocaine.

Bright got a job as a concrete worker, until he injured his back. After which, he became addicted to painkillers – as well as cocaine and alcohol. Bright found it difficult to keep a steady job after this and lived in an apartment behind his mother’s house.

Meanwhile, he sought instant gratification with sex and drugs. He became fascinated with sex and pornography that involved African-American women.

Then in 2003, bodies of black women, some prostitutes and drug addicts, began turning up along rural roads around Peoria. Most of them were strangled.

But soon the murdered victims were no longer found dumped. Because in August 2004, Bright began to burn his victims’ bodies in a firepit in his back garden and scatter their ashes in different places.

May 30, 2006, Larry D. Bright plead guilty to Seven Counts of First Degree Murder and One Count of Drug-Induced Homicide. Larry Bright was sentenced to natural life on each of the seven counts of First Degree Murder, each sentence to run concurrently. The First Degree Murder sentences will run concurrently with the 30 years received on the charge of Drug Induced Homicide.

Truth in Sentencing applies, which means Larry D. Bright will serve 100% of his sentences of natural life in prison without the possibility of parole.

As part of the Plea Agreement, Larry D. Bright waived all rights to appeal.

Hate is more about fear than anything else. I will send you a bottle and a blanket. You will feel OK in no time.

Just because you love blacks doesn't mean I have to, people like you just haven't been a victim of a violent crime yet at the hands of a black and are oblivious to the dangers that are associated with them. You're just naive and a fool.

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